Re: The North American Internet is Under ATTACK! Does your internet connection suck lately? Here's why!

There is plenty that is sinister going on. My brother works for a major telecomunications corp and they have been fighting these guys for quite awhile on behalf of their clients. Whole IP range blocks have been and are still necessary. I wish I could say more but I can't. The poster above who mentioned the kill switch is spot on, but the switch isn't in the hands you may think it is.

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Re: The North American Internet is Under ATTACK! Does your internet connection suck lately? Here's why!

Yes, I have been thinking this is happening as well...I think a cyber enemy is doing penetration testing of our IT infrastructure...seeing what they can turn on or off at a later point when needed. If you scan the news over the past month for similar stories, there have been many all over the US. The phone system in my city was even inoperable for about 1 hour a few weeks ago, something that has never happened before, ever.

Re: The North American Internet is Under ATTACK! Does your internet connection suck lately? Here's why!

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Re: The North American Internet is Under ATTACK! Does your internet connection suck lately? Here's why!

There is plenty that is sinister going on. My brother works for a major telecomunications corp and they have been fighting these guys for quite awhile on behalf of their clients. Whole IP range blocks have been and are still necessary. I wish I could say more but I can't. The poster above who mentioned the kill switch is spot on, but the switch isn't in the hands you may think it is.

Quoting: snark

Whose hands then? The ISPs? Some dark alphabet agency like the NSA?

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Re: The North American Internet is Under ATTACK! Does your internet connection suck lately? Here's why!

There is plenty that is sinister going on. My brother works for a major telecomunications corp and they have been fighting these guys for quite awhile on behalf of their clients. Whole IP range blocks have been and are still necessary. I wish I could say more but I can't. The poster above who mentioned the kill switch is spot on, but the switch isn't in the hands you may think it is.

Re: The North American Internet is Under ATTACK! Does your internet connection suck lately? Here's why!

Last night I had a very strange connection loss. I was still able to receive tweets on my Twitter program on my computer but I was unable to tweet back, go on websites, get my email, go on XBL, or do anything really.

Its like they blocked out everything except for incoming tweets. Maybe to test that they can still send out emergency warnings like they do on on TV?

Re: The North American Internet is Under ATTACK! Does your internet connection suck lately? Here's why!

First of all this particular site blows ass for a month now and it's very irritating. Secondly, and more bothersome is the fact that any Google searches I do take about 10-15 seconds to occur no matter which PC i'm on. That has been happening about a month also.

Re: The North American Internet is Under ATTACK! Does your internet connection suck lately? Here's why!

Last night I had a very strange connection loss. I was still able to receive tweets on my Twitter program on my computer but I was unable to tweet back, go on websites, get my email, go on XBL, or do anything really.

Its like they blocked out everything except for incoming tweets. Maybe to test that they can still send out emergency warnings like they do on on TV?

Quoting: Fishticon

It almost sounds like someone's monkeying with the DNS. If your twitter program references an actual direct IP address and still gets data, but your browser doesn't, that is a reasonable first suspicion.

Re: The North American Internet is Under ATTACK! Does your internet connection suck lately? Here's why!

There is plenty that is sinister going on. My brother works for a major telecomunications corp and they have been fighting these guys for quite awhile on behalf of their clients. Whole IP range blocks have been and are still necessary. I wish I could say more but I can't. The poster above who mentioned the kill switch is spot on, but the switch isn't in the hands you may think it is.